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Old 03-07-2005, 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Samw
Lexan doesn't bond well and flexes too much. Lots of info on RC. The good thing is that it is more heat resistant than Acrylic so its a good replacement for tank center braces. I will probably be replacing my tank's black plastic center brace with Lexan.
Sam watch that, although it takes a higher heat to make flexible it will go white with bubbles if it gets to hot and has a high moisture content. be for we could form it for making skylights we had to dry it in a oven over the weekend. I found out the hard way what happens when some one turns the oven off and you don't check be for you start heating it in the forming furnace 2000.00 chunk of Lexan to the dumpster and man was it a pain to cut up.

Steve
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